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Forgive me....I called you an idiot. I spoke too hastily. You are not. Had I given it more thought, I would have called you a scoundrel.

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Lloyd Alexander
Age: 83 †
Born: 1924
Born: January 30
Died: 2007
Died: May 17
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Novelist
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Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Lloyd Chudley Alexander
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Scoundrels
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Idiot
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Scoundrel

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This much have I learned: A man's life weighs more than glory, and a price paid in blood is a heavy reckoning.
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Seize the day, whatever's in it to seize, before something comes along and seizes you.
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By all means, cried the bard, his eyes lighting up. A Fflam to the rescue! Storm the castle! Carry it by assault! Batter down the gates! There's not much of it left to storm, said Eilonwy. Oh? said Fflewddur, with disappointment. Very well, we shall do the best we can.
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My family pleaded with me to forget literature and do something sensible, such as find some sort of useful work.
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That is why your sacrifice was all the more difficult. You chose to be a hero not through enchantment but through your own manhood.
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He will not succeed in this, Taran said. Somehow, we must find a way to escape. We dare not lose hope. I agree absolutely, Fflewddur answered. Your general idea is excellent it's only the details that are lacking.
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After I saved some money, I quit work and went to a local college.
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Shakespeare, Dickens, Mark Twain, and so many others were my dearest friends and greatest teachers.
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